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A Glimpse of Modern-Day Slavery

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 20, 2013
I am alive today because of that truck driver. He saved my life trafficking me, taking my money, selling me to another master. There is no help given for free.…
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Fourteen Hills Turns Twenty

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 20, 2013
Fourteen Hills, a splendid literary journal that has published several Rumpus contributors, is turning twenty! Come celebrate their big 2-0 tomorrow at 7:00 PM at San Francisco’s Art Institute of California,…
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“This Novel Treads So Finely Between Hope and Despair”

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 20, 2013
Our essays editor Roxane Gay reviewed Mitchell S. Jackson’s The Residue Years for the New York Times Sunday Book Review, and she makes it sound like one hell of a book: There…
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Hey, That Guy Wasn’t In the Book!

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 20, 2013
Purists may cringe, but it happens: When a book is turned into a movie, some scenes and characters are shrunk or eliminated entirely, while others are expanded are introduced wholesale.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

  • Dan Weiss
  • August 20, 2013
Oh hey, Area 51 is a for real (not terribly alien-infested) place. As a bad movie connoisseur it’s pretty great hearing Jerry Lewis talk about “The Day the Clown Cried”.…
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Fanfiction Gathers Force

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 19, 2013
Ever since Fifty Shades of Grey, originally written with characters from Twilight as its protagonists, struck gold, the mainstream publishing world has had to take a closer look at fanfiction. In the…
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The Feminist Reading List to End All Feminist Reading Lists

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 19, 2013
In case you missed it, Rumpus contributor Michelle Dean whipped up a superb “pop-culture feminist syllabus” at Flavorwire. Ranging from time-tested classics like Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman to newer but equally exciting…
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Which Do You Spend More Money On: Ebooks or Lattes?

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 19, 2013
In 1946, George Orwell wrote an essay called “Books vs. Cigarettes,” trying to figure out which habit cost him more and whether books were simply out of some people’s financial…
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What Child Abuse Looks Like Among Billionaires

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 19, 2013
You’d think teenage twins Georgia and Patterson Inman, heirs to millions and millions of dollars, would have the easiest lives in the world. According to this Rolling Stone profile, you’d be wrong:…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • August 19, 2013
There are no holiday weekends in August, but there are weekend Rumpus roundups. If you feel like you need a hundred-year-nap, you might relate to Saturday’s comic by Yumi Sakugawa.…
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Notable New York: 8/19-8/25

  • Dustin Luke Nelson
  • August 19, 2013
The end of August is a notoriously slow time for events of all kinds in New York. Why this year, and this week, has been an exception I do not…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

  • Dan Weiss
  • August 19, 2013
Welcome to the working week, here are two timelines of slang for genitals. Important news update: San Miguel Island is pretty neat. 1920s Australian criminals were very dapper. Everyone loves…
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